Men who don't eat their vegetables

[SafeAndHappyNow]

I am recently single - have namechanged - and am just dipping my toe in the water with regard to getting out more and having a social life again.

Instead of dating, (because I'm too scared at the moment lol) I have joined a couple of local mixed social groups and am going out with people that way. Lots of the events organised involve food.

Now, obviously, I am kinda looking for a new potential boyfriend - but an awful lot of men at these events aren't eating their vegetables - I'm serious by the way.

AIBU to find this really childish? I thought it was just children who refused to eat their veg.

It's putting me off men that might otherwise be OK.

end of sentence: ... is a reasonable diet, then it's not a good sign.

Can i just say i dont know if its just me, but i only prefer to eat the veg that I have cooked personally - and if we go out to a restaurant i wont order veg with my meal or if it comes with it i wont eat it. The only veg i eat is if i have cooked it or parents.

Well, DH doesn't eat any vegetables. He has a food phobia brought about by being force fed by his parents as a fussy toddler. He literally throws up if he attempts to eat any veg other than carrots. And he can sometimes tolerate salad. Oh, and if someone orders so much as a fish finger, let alone proper fish, he's liable to be exorcist sick all over the place. He takes multivitamins and the occassional lecture. We're actually looking in to hypnotherapy.

Cheeky, that's weird. (sorry! )

I don't like peas or cooked carrots, but they are really the only veg I won't eat.
Which makes it look like I don't eat veg, either, because when I go out to pubs etc for dinner, they always serve bloody carrots and peas! Imagination?!

I too judge fussy adults.

YANBU

yanbu

Can't stand fussy eaters. It's just a form of attention seeking.

Agree, Curly. Or food snobbishness. Or not having grown up.

YANBU. Cant abide a fussy eating man. Dp refused to eat my parsnips once, never looked at him the same since.

My DP doesn't like veg. won't eat it out of choice, but eats it if its put on his plate by others (me, his mum, a restaurant etc).
However, since we've had DD, he eats veg without question and actively seeks out opportunity to express his delight with a runner bean or some carrots. I think he feels its his responsibility to lead by example (which, of course, it is).
So, what I'm saying is that he didn't like veg before but that he has turned out to be a model father in terms of vegetable eating behaviour.

This is natural selection telling you these men are not a long term bet.

I love that!

Fabby - If your son NEVER eats vegetables I don't see how he can be eating a healthy diet as you say he is.